City of Covington v. Reagan

MOREMEN, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment sustaining the validity of an ordinance initiated under KRS 89.160 which provides that in cities organized and governed under a commission form of government a sufficient group of voters may request the board of commissioners to ordain a specified ordinance. Upon presentation of the ordinance to the board it may either pass the proposed ordinance without alteration within ten days, or it may submit the question of its passage to the voters at the next regular election.

The commission elected to submit the ordinance to a plebiscite and it was…